Less Than Jake

[fox69]

"Bad Scene And A Basement Show"

"Bad Scene And A Basement Show"



Well the scene here he wants her back
he's trying to use the phone
she's hanging up he's given up
he should've known
looking lost then he wanders off
and tries to sing along to some song he's never heard
but just keeps mouthing all the words
It gets worse before it's all over
I know I'll get through this somehow
and nothing's gonna change her mind for now
Well the scene here he's still alone
another band goes on in this crowded basement
with too much smal talk and lame inside jokes
feeling useless out of excuses
he should've known to let it go
she said "it's done"
second chances seem to never come
After all the bad endings and misunderstandings
and all of the late night last hopes and lost time
and all that she left for me wasonly a memory
all I can say is she don't understand me

 

[fox69]

"Beauty School Dropout"

"Beauty School Dropout"



Your story sad to tell
A teenage ne'er do well
Most mixed up non-delinquent on the block

Your futures so unclear now
What's left of your career now
Can't even get a trade in on your smock
Beauty school dropout
No graduation day for you
Beauty school dropout
Missed your mid-terms and flunked shampoo
Well at least you could have taken time to wash and clean your clothes up
After spending all that dough to have the doctor fix you nose up

Baby get moving (Better get movin)
Why keep your feeble hopes alive
What are you proving (What are you provin)
You've got the dream but not the drive

If you go for your diploma you could join the steno pool
Turn in your teasin' comb and go back to high school

Beauty school dropout (Beauty school dropout)
Hanging around the corner store
Beauty school dropout (Beauty school dropout)
It's about time you knew the score

Well they couldn't teach you anything you think you're such a looker
But no customer would go to you unless she was a hooker

Baby don't sweat it (Don't sweat it)
You're not cut out to hold a job
Better forget it (Forget it)
Who wants their hair done by a slob?

Now your bangs are curled your lashes twirled but still the world is cruel
Wipe off that angel face and go back to high school

Baby don't blow it
Don't put my good advice to shame
Baby you know it
Even dear Abby'd say the same

Now I've called the shot, get off the pot, I really gotta fly
Gotta be going to that malt shop in the sky

Beauty school dropout (Beauty school dropout)
Go back to high school
Beauty school dropout (Beauty school dropout)
Go back to high school
Beauty school dropout (Beauty school dropout)
Go back to high school

 

[fox69]

"Best Wishes To Your Black Lungs"

"Best Wishes To Your Black Lungs"



By this time tomorrow
You'll be out on the streets of Chicago
Walking all the way home from commuter trains

By this time tomorrow
You'll be back home in Chicago
At the bars until they close
Back at the places that you've known and
It'l be skylines and rooftops
And it's gunna be crowded tourist stops

So it's goodbye
To your brand new life
So it's good luck
Best wishes to your black lung

By this time tomorrow
You'll be walking home thru Chicago
Past the nine to five crowds and underneath
Those unused fire escapes
By this time tomorrow
You'll be at the bars in Chicago
Back with people that you know
Going places you used to go
It's gunna be skyline and rooftops
And it's gunna be crowded tourist stops

So it's goodbye
To your brand new life
So it's good luck
Best wishes to your black lung
So when you're leaving the party just to beat the crowd
Just make sure that you're the first one out

 

[fox69]

"Big"

"Big"



Wonder what hold things together
Is it political positions or maybe superstitions
The list goes on forever
It seems to go on forever
Are old rituals necessary to stand by
How many things just to get us through the night
And can we say their wrong altogether
The world keeps going on forever
It still looks big
Can everything in some way help us understand
From mathematical problems to rubber bands
And can we say it's wrong altogether
The world goes on forever
It still looks big

 

[fox69]

"Big Crash"

"Big Crash"



Sometimes, I think somethings
wrong with me because,
I was never one,
to believe in anyone or anything.
Its always been just me.
Its always been just.

And you know, they've always had,
always had big plans for you.
Just to walk you through
and cloud your views. Woah-oh-ho.
And I'll never say,
Everythings OK.
Don't wanna say that
you're giving up right now.
Just hold your ground,
and don't give up,
in what you believe.

Big plans.
Big crash.
Don't be different,
when you can't be yourself.

Big plans.
Big crash.
Don't be different,
when you can't be yourself.

Sometimes, I think somethings
wrong with me because,
I was never one,
to believe in anyone or anything.
I can't say I'll ever change.
Won't say I'll ever change.

And you know, they've always had,
always had big plans for you.
Just to walk you through
and cloud your views. Woah-oh-ho-oh-ho-oh.
And I'll never say,
Everythings OK.
Don't wanna say that
you're giving up right now.
Just hold your ground,
and don't give up,
in what you believe.

Big plans.
Big crash.
Don't be different,
when you can't be yourself.

Big plans.
Big crash.
Don't be different,
when you can't be yourself.

Big plans.
Big crash.
Don't be different,
when you can't be yourself.

Big plans.
Big crash.
Don't be different,
when you can't be yourself.

Big plans.
Big crash.
Big plans.
Big crash.
Big plans.
Big crash.
Big plans.
Big crash.

 

[fox69]

"Bigger Picture"

"Bigger Picture"



Breaking down from every insult that you've taken
from one sided conversations
Burning out from all the minor misconceptions
that just play on your frustrations
your self doubt has your head so turned around
there's not a catch phrase that can save you
and it's not that hard to figure out
disappointment doesn't have to cut to a commercial now
I'm breaking down I'm burning out
and it's not funny like on television
when your self doubt turns you inside out
it's still not funny like on television
I'm passing time since I've been right
and it's not funny like on television
those times I've cracked with no laugh track
and it wasn't funny like on television

 

[fox69]

"Black Coffee"

"Black Coffee"



If only my problems were like water
they could be boiled away
and watching the steam drift upward,
watching my problems drift away.
And watch the steam turn and twist,
watch it all drift away.
Look how it rises and lifts
watch my problems drift away.
If only my problems were like water
they all could be washed away
and watch the water go downward
watch it all go down the drain.

 

[fox69]

"Bless The Cracks"

"Bless The Cracks"



We were young
Out of touch
Back when it was different, growing up

We're the ones
That would run
When it's said and done, yeah, it was us

We were free
You and me
It's all we ever needed to believe

Piece by piece
Breaking me
They told us how we should be, and we agreed

Hey, brother
How you living?
Night after night in your own prison
There's nothing truer that's ever been said
When you live on hope alone
Don't go holding your breath
Don't go holding your breeeaaath

You and I
Will survive
But ask me if I knew I'd pay the price

Hanging on
By a thread
The voices in my head stop making sense

On the edge
Once again
Living in the moment 'til the end

Every night
Of our lives
I wonder if it'd been right the whole damn time

Hey, brother
How you living?
Night after night in your own prison
There's nothing truer that's ever been said
When you live on hope alone
Don't go holding your breath
Don't go holding your breeeaaath

Can you say you found the voice that's deep inside
Deep inside?
Drank along as they came in, made up our minds
Made up our minds
Can you say that they have been right all this time
Every time?

Feels like forever since we
Built our cages (We built our cages)
Of empty phrases

Hey, brother
How you living?
Night after night in your own prison
There's nothing truer that's ever been said
Take a look at yourself, try to save what's left

Hey, brother
How you living?
When you live on hope alone
Don't go holding your breath
Don't go holding your breeeaaath
Don't go holding your breath
Don't go holding your breeeaaath

Don't go holding your breath
Don't go holding your breath
Don't go holding your breath
Don't go holding your breath

 

[fox69]

"Blindsided"

"Blindsided"



Isn't it funny that it all comes down to money
Running on a treadmill, wasting time
Keeps you too busy to lose your mind
I was blindsided out on the street
The tension was so thick I could hardly even breathe
And I don't like the way things are going down
I don't like the way things are going down,
That's all, it's all
It's enough to knock me down
Man I was blindsided when a guy walked right past
Calls for help from this guy under the overpass
So I guess it's the "problem will go away if I block it out"
It's all enough to knock me down

 

[fox69]

"Blue Moon"

"Blue Moon"



Blue moon, you saw me standing alone
Without a dream in my heart, without a love of my own

Blue moon, you knew just what I was there for
You heard me saying a prayer for someone I really could care for

And then suddenly appeared before me, the only one my arms could ever hold
I heard somebody whisper 'please adore me'
But when I looked, that moon had turned to gold - oh oh oh

Blue moon, now I'm no longer alone
Without a dream in my heart, without a love of my own
Without a love of my own